Care Options Articles

What are the differences between senior living communities? What unique care services are available to your parents? There are many options to review, from Senior Independent Living to Assisted Living or Memory Care. Each community offers different features that will be appealing to your parents, including dining, social activities, and fitness programs.

Just read a good article on Scientific American about Alzheimer’s. P. Murali Doraiswamy discusses recent breakthroughs in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease and what everyone can do to postpone the onset of memory loss.

Doraiswamy, who is the head of biological psychiatry at Duke University and is a Senior Fellow at Duke’s Center for the Study of Aging sais that the two biggest Alzheimer’s misconceptions are “It’s just aging” and “It’s untreatable, so we should …Read more ›

An opinion piece on ideas for a “different type of assisted living facility” recently caught my eye. Besides getting an e-mail alert about it, a colleague posted the piece on my Facebook page, knowing that in my former life I served as an activities director. I had to check it out. …Read more ›